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    If predictive adequacy is the criterion for belief indivi... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The logic of belief and other attitudes must involve structured mental representations

    If predictive adequacy is the criterion for belief individuation, structured representations are explanatorily idle posits beyond what functional organization provides.

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    • 1.Functional organization alone suffices to predict behavior; adding structured representations violates parsimony without empirical gain.
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    • 2.If two systems have identical input-output mappings, positing different internal structures for one is unfalsifiable metaphysics.
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    • 3.Predictive adequacy is the only scientifically defensible criterion; structural claims exceed what observation can verify or refute.
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    • 1.Functional organization cannot explain how systems generalize to novel cases; structure constrains possibility space in ways function cannot.
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    • 2.Two systems with identical functional profiles but different representational structures can diverge in generalization, learning, and robustness.
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    • 3.Structure explains *why* a particular function works; predictive adequacy alone leaves explanatory gaps about causal mechanisms.
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